Poster for The Green Book: Guide to Freedom

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (2019) 7.7

Documentary, History, TV Movie • 52min • Feb 25th 2019

Story

In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help African-Americans navigate safe those regions of the United States where segregation and Jim Crow laws were disgracefully applied.

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Cast

Yoruba Richen

Yoruba Richen
Self - Narrator (voice)

Delbert Hunt
Green Book Excerpts Narrator (voice)

Marquette Folley
Self - Smithsonian Institute Member

Karen Allen Baxter
Self

Jennifer Ivey
Self

Henrie Monteith Treadwel
Self - Civil Rights Activist

Murray Bishoff
Self - Journalist and Local Historian

Jack George
Self - Pierce City Resident

Jamon Jordan
Self - Local Historian

Candacy Taylor
Self - Author

Eric J. Lindsey
Self - Idlewild Resident

Ronald J. Stephens
Self - Author

Marilyn S. Taylor
Self - Idlewild Resident

Betty Jean Foote
Self - Phil Giles' Wife

Lois Perry
Self - Flamingo Bar Waitress

Ron Handy
Self - Musician

Elizabeth Calvin
Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild

Irv Logan
Self - Alberta Ellis' Grandchild

Brent Leggs
Self - NTHP Member

Carol Jenkins
Self - Author

Lena Horne

Lena Horne
Self - Singer (archive footage)

Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington
Self - Musician (archive footage)

Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole
Self - Musician (archive footage)

Modjeska Monteith Simkins
Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.
Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

A. G. Gaston
Self - Businessman (archive footage)

Ralph Abernathy

Ralph Abernathy
Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Zephyr Wright
Self - LBJ's Cook (archive footage)

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